I wanted to add this, this morning, another thing found in the no fly zone.
I also have been watching the webcam over the past few months and there have been two or three other sightings in the no fly zone,see one or two here:
http://www.mediavillage.net/test/index.php...=Object&ceid=12Radar UFO Triggers Washington Security Alert
A moving "UFO" picked up on radar triggered a security alert in
Washington D.C. yesterday (April 27).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5042701937.htmlAlso:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file.../w151233D01.DTLhttp://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file.../w091938D92.DTLAs the stories indicate, it was later explained away as "clouds"
(or maybe rain or a flock of birds) creating a false radar
image. These "explanations" seem lame and very reminiscent of
the 1952 Washington UFO radar images being explained away as
false targets created by a temperature inversion.
David Rudiak
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D.C. Alert Triggered By Clouds
By Sara Kehaulani Goo and Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, April 28, 2005; Page A05
The mysterious flying object first blipped across U.S. security
radar 20 miles south of Reagan National Airport at 10:40 a.m.
yesterday and appeared headed swiftly toward the District.
About 15 minutes later, President Bush was in an underground
bunker at the White House and Vice President Cheney was escorted
off the White House grounds to a secure location, officials
said.
The "target" -- as Customs and Border Protection officials
called it -- showed up on the radar intermittently. It was
moving through restricted airspace at about the speed of a
helicopter, said agency spokesman Gary Bracken. Customs
officials reported the object's approach to the Domestic Events
Network, a 24-hour secure communications line connecting all
major security-related agencies.
Army officials at Davison Army Airfield in Fort Belvoir, Va.,
spotted a low-flying helicopter in the area but could not
determine whether it was the object that had set off the alert.
After vanishing from radar, the target then reappeared several
minutes later -- this time just seven miles from National
Airport, stirring serious concern among Customs and Border
Protection officials, Bracken said. The agency dispatched a
Black Hawk helicopter to the scene. A U.S. Park Police
helicopter and another from a local law enforcement agency,
which were already airborne, also scanned the area.
But all the search teams saw were clouds.
Turns out, that's all it was.
"It does happen," Bracken said. "We have to deal with weather
anomalies showing up on the radar screen."
U.S. officials say it is not uncommon for radars scanning the
sky for terrorist threats to mistake a weather system or a flock
of birds for a unidentified aircraft -- and it sends them
scrambling. Yesterday's scare was the first known incident to
send the president to the White House underground bunker since
the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Officials said the
swift reaction illustrated the improved communication system
among security agencies charged with keeping the sky around
Washington secure.
"Out of an abundance of caution, the appropriate security
measures were taken," said Brian Roehrkasse, spokesman for the
Department of Homeland Security. "Basically there was an
apparent aircraft that showed up on the radar, it turned out to
be a blip. Aircraft already in the vicinity were able to verify
there was in fact no plane."
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed
that a patch of clouds was moving through the area yesterday
where the radar picked up the mysterious target.
The temperature was about 63 degrees with light wind and
possibly very light showers north of Quantico at the time
Customs officials said the blip hit their radar, said Jim Lee,
meteorologist in charge at the NOAA Washington-Baltimore weather
forecast office. "There were certainly clouds in the airspace,"
Lee said.
At the White House yesterday, witnesses said some staff members
and visitors were removed, and armed, uniformed Secret Service
officers took position around the executive mansion.
The Secret Service said it took action because "there was a
potential violation of the restricted airspace," said spokesman
Jim Mackin.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the president was in
the bunker for only a "very short period of time." Mackin said
the Secret Service raised its alert at 10:54 a.m. and sounded
the all clear at 10:58.
"We appreciate the precautionary steps that the Secret Service
took," McClellan said. "They do an outstanding job."
